Principal Investigator(s):Ross, Catherine E., University of Texas at Austin. Department of Sociology and Population Research Center; Britt, Chester, Arizona State University. Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Summary:

The Survey of Community, Crime, and Health (CCH) was
conducted in 1995 and 1998 in Illinois to examine the relationship
between neighborhood disadvantage and physical and mental health,
(over and above individual socio-economic characteristics), in order
to develop a measure of perceived neighborhood disorder and to explore
its role in explaining that relationship. Interviews were conducted
with 2,482 respondents and covered topics such as physical health,
mental health, health behaviors, use of... (more info)

The Survey of Community, Crime, and Health (CCH) was
conducted in 1995 and 1998 in Illinois to examine the relationship
between neighborhood disadvantage and physical and mental health,
(over and above individual socio-economic characteristics), in order
to develop a measure of perceived neighborhood disorder and to explore
its role in explaining that relationship. Interviews were conducted
with 2,482 respondents and covered topics such as physical health,
mental health, health behaviors, use of services, and sense of
control. Also examined were social support, perceived neighborhood
characteristics, neighborhood social support, and personal and
household demographics. In addition to individual-level variables,
Wave I of the CCH contains a number of community-level variables that
were created from the 1990 STF Census data. Variable names starting
with T are tract-level, variables starting with C are county-level,
and variables starting with P are city-level.

Access Notes

These data are freely available.

This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA
is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

Methodology

Sample:
Probability sampling was used.

Mode of Data Collection:
telephone interview

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Standardized missing values.

Created online analysis version with question text.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2006-03-06

Version History:

2010-09-21 Documentation has been updated.

2008-11-19 New files were added. These files included one or more of the following: Stata setup, SAS transport (CPORT), SPSS system, Stata system, SAS supplemental syntax, and Stata supplemental syntax files, and a tab-delimited ASCII data file.